Stop the slop by disabling AI features in Chrome

Most of today’s desktop web browsers have plenty of built-in AI features, but the good news is that in most cases no one forces you to use them and you can at least hide them. Removing the most egregious AI tools from Chrome is pretty easy, but it does require a few steps.

Make the Gemini button disappear

By default, a large Gemini button appears at the top right of the browser window, constantly trying to trick you into using Google’s chatbot. To hide it, right-click the button and select Unpin. Unfortunately, this doesn’t disable the keyboard shortcut (Alt + G on some platforms) that brings up Gemini, but there is another way to accomplish this.

If you don’t want to just hide Gemini, navigate to chrome://settings/ai/gemini. Once you’ve unpinned Gemini, you’ll see that “Show Gemini at the top of the browser” is disabled. If not, turn it off. Now turn off all other switches including “Show…”